a minimum of 10 hours’ professional tuition in a car with dual controls.

Why? Surely the dual controls are only necessary at the very beginning of training (and for many are not required at all). How does 10 hours with dual controls improve safety in any way?

An instructor may not be aware of the capabilities of the pupil in less than that time. I am aware that over use of the controls can also be a problem. It must be clear that an instructor should tell the pupil if they are used, and why.

Duals should only be used by the instructor where there is likely to be a safety issue.

A demonstration of clutch control by the instuctor using the dual clutch can be usefull to help a pupil understand what they are aiming to achieve, but the instructor should emphasise that they have much more experience, and that the pupil will achieve that level of control with practice. After their first lesson they should have an understanding of the possible reasons as to why they stalled, although it may need reinforcing from time to time. So, allowing a stall when safe will teach them more than saving the stall. Similarly with braking, only if verbal instruction has failed should the instructor use the duals.

That was sort of my point. I would imagine that dual controls are much more about protecting the instructor’s pride and joy from minor damage, than major safety considerations. I would think that a lot of us commenting on this site have never been in a dual control car. Whatever the rights or wrongs of compulsory lengths of instruction, dual controls seem to be an irrelevance here.

I learnt in my parents cars. I taught all three of my children in our cars. There were no dual controls involved, no damage was done, and nothing dangerous happened.

On the other hand there was some swapping between seats for demonstration purposes. And there was less time pressure than with a paid instructor.

I teach gliding - in machines with genuine dual controls. Demonstration forms a fundamental and regular part of instructing. I think driving instruction would be more productive in a car with genuine dual controls including accelerator and steering wheel, such as I have seen used in other countries.